baier@hal.fmi.uni-passau.de (Joern Baier) (05/09/91)
Hi! How can I calculate the size of a cartridge tape? We have a lot of 3M-tapes which are labeled as follows: DC600A; 600 feet; 12,500 ftpi; 550 oersted tape; I think it is not a 150M tape but it works fine with our 150M tape device. Only once it complained that it wanted another sort of tape: Apr 28 11:28:30 hal vmunix: st0: wrong tape for writing, use DC6150 tape (or equivalent) But this message has never appeared again after a reboot. So far there haven't been any problems when I tried to restore files which I dumped to the tape. Should I go on using those old DC600A tapes or should I try to get some DC6150 tapes? Has anyone negative experiences with DC600A-tapes on a 150M-device? Joern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joern Baier (baier@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de) Jesuitengasse 9 D-W-8390 Passau Tel.: +49/851/35239 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------